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Amelia Gagliano wrote a feature article on our 2006 Open House Performance for the Fall 2006 Issue of USLR News, with photos of the Lipizzan Mare, Sophia Dahlia at the longrein. The complete article can be viewed on page 29 of the newsletter.
The competitive successes of Shana and Dr. Thomas Ritter with their Lipizzans was featured in the Winter 2004 Issue of USLR News, which can be viewed in its entirety on page 14 of the November 2004 USLR News.
Dr. Thomas Ritter also included a training article called, "On the Bit," for the Fall 2006 Issue of the USLR News, which also features photos of Shana Ritter on the Lipizzan Stallion, Pluto III Ambrosia II; Shana Ritter on the Lipizzan Mare, Ambrosia; and Thomas Ritter at the longrein with the Lipizzan Mare, Cascadia. The entire article, complete with photos, can be viewed on page 31 of the PDF format of the Fall 2006 USLR News.
Flying Changes
Our Lipizzan Stallion, Maestoso II Catrina, was featured on the cover of the December 2006 Issue of Flying Changes Magazine. It was a beautiful photo taken by Professional Equine Photographer, Mary Cornelius, taken during the October 2006 National Lipizzan Symposium where Thomas and Shana Ritter performed with a number of their Lipizzans. The particular photo was taken of Maestoso II Catrina and Shana Ritter during the "Work-in-Hand and Airs Above the Ground" act.
To see all of the photos of the Symposium, visit photographer, Mary Cornelius' website at marycornlius.smugmug.com.
Haute Ecole
The Summer 2005 Issue of The Lipizzan Association of North America (LANA)'s newsletter featured the Score Results for the 2005 Lipizzan Evaluations by Dr. Jaromir Oulehla, hosted by Ritter Dressage in September 2005. The complete scores can be viewed in the PDF version of the newsletter here.
Miscellaneous
In 2006, Christine Bell wrote an article which chronicles the role of various breeders and trainers in the promotion of the Lipizzan horses in the Pacific Northwest, which features photos and information about Ritter Dressage competing on Lipizzans in the Pacific Northwest. The article was called, "Those Splendid White Stallions: The Northwest's Role in Perpetuating Lipizzan Horses" and it can be viewed on the Wind Mountain Lipizzans' website here.
The February 2006 Issue of "The Dallas Dressage Club Transitions" GMO Newsletter published an article by Dr. Thomas Ritter called, "Classical Dressage is Accessible to All," which can be viewed complete with a photograph of Dr. Thomas Ritter on the Lusitano Stallion, Maquiavelo, in the Piaffe, at here.
Dr. Thomas Ritter's article, "Dressage Movements: A Means to an End" was featured on the Dressage-Connection.com website.
Dr. Thomas Ritter's article, "Philosophical Guidelines for Classical Dressage" was featured in the January 2008 issue of the Houston Dressage Society's GMO newsletter. The full newsletter can be read in PDF form at www.houstondressagesociety.org.
Dr. Thomas Ritter was quoted in an article on Driving by Callie Jordan titled, "Groundwork for Driving, Part II" which can be viewed here.
Dressage Winnipeg's Quarterly Newsletter, "Passage," featured an article by Dr. Thomas Ritter in Spring 2006 about the Half Halt. The full article can be read on page 15 of the PDF format of the newsletter at www.dressagewinnipeg.com.
